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Hyperlocal online journalism - why we have reasons to be cheerful
Stephen Emms and Tom Kihl co-edit a website, The Kentishtowner, that serves a north London district. They read the extracts about hyperlocal sites from the book I have been serialising, What do we mean...
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Local news crisis: let's turn universities into community broadcasters
Today's extract from What do we mean by local?* is a sideways look at the plan by Jeremy Hunt, the culture and media secretary, to introduce local TV to communities across Britain. Former Press...
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Lessons to learn from the Journatic fakery scandal
Journatic, a US company formed to provide community news to large newspapers, was exposed earlier this month for using fake bylines on its stories.The stories were often written by freelance...
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Help for hyperlocal journalists
Cardiff University is to launch a centre of excellence for hyperlocal websites in September. It aims to help people who wish to engage in community journalism, initially within Wales.The centre will...
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Hyperlocal scoops by journalism students
My item just now on a coming masterclass about investigative journalism reminds me that I forgot last week to mention an example of what can be achieved by young journalists who set their minds to...
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Why hyperlocal journalism should be free from regulation
Hyperlocal media, a small but fast-growing sector, ought to be unregulated, writes Damian Radcliffe in a very long, but rewarding, article.Here are the bones of the argument advanced by Radcliffe,...
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Another free weekly goes to the wall
The last edition of the Streatham Guardian appeared today. The free weekly, published in south London by Newsquest/Gannett, announced its demise in a page 3 story (as above) saying the paper is moving...
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Greenwich gets new hyperlocal paper
Residents living in the town centre of the London borough of Greenwich can buy a new hyper-local newspaper from today (Wednesday 3 July) - the Greenwich Town Mercury.It's a paid-for weekly launched by...
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David Banks: my e-newspaper covers news the local media have abandoned
Today's extract from the second, updated edition of the book about local journalism What do we mean by local?* is by David Banks.During his career, he was variously editor of Daily Mirror, assistant...
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How to build tomorrow's media company - an 11-point strategy
Today's extract from the second, updated edition of the book about local journalism What do we mean by local?* is by media consultant Jim ChisholmEndless research shows that, despite our increasingly...
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Parish magazine that makes a profit and turns away advertisers
Today's extract from the second, updated edition of the book about local journalism What do we mean by local?* is by Andrew Vallance, secretary to the D Notice Committee, who also edits his local...
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Hey Twitter and Facebook, once upon a time newspapers were 'social media'
Centuries before Twitter, Facebook and the enthusiasm for hyperlocal journalism, social media was enjoying popularity in a British colony across the Atlantic. And the bearers of this media revolution...
View Article'Impressive' hyperlocal news sites are campaigning and investigating
Survey finds much to appreciate in community journalismA new survey of hyperlocal online news sites reveals that many of them have been responsible for investigative and campaigning journalism.*Of the...
View ArticleSix reasons why charities should harness hyperlocal communications
While it is easy to get drowned out in mainstream channels, charities that are focusing on local outlets are seeing fantastic results10 things your charity needs to know about social mediaFive social...
View ArticleDigital nonsense - local newspapers have always helped their communities
In my cub-reporting days I soon learned that local journalism was about much more than simply reporting the news. Providing information was a key part, and surely the key part, of the job. But the...
View ArticleHow to save local journalism (and democracy) with a new funding initiative
It is hardly a secret that local newspapers are in crisis. I have written about it endlessly. Over the past decade, and longer, Press Gazette has detailed the gloomy drip-drip-drip of problems: the...
View ArticleGovernment must fund hyperlocal news, urges report
Carnegie UK Trust calls for online start-ups to receive backing to fill local media gapsIt is time for the government to provide financial backing to Britain’s emerging hyperlocal online news...
View ArticleWestminster seminar to discuss the future for local media
Speakers lined up to for big discussion next springWhither local media? It’s the question that publishers, editors and journalists are asking all the time (I’m not certain about the public...
View ArticleBBC seeks to forge working links with hyperlocal news sites
Corporation will add community outlets and bloggers to its local live streamsThe BBC is seeking to cement its links with hyperlocal news outlets across Britain by asking them how they and the...
View ArticleBBC should help fund hyperlocal news sites, says report
Cardiff University and Nesta study says ‘urgent intervention’ is needed to keep hyperlocal journalism viable and BBC should purchase content from local sitesThe BBC should help fund Britain’s emerging...
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